Portable hard drives are always getting smaller. That’s a good thing. LaCie just announced its latest and is calling the Rikiki the most compact on the market. I can’t confirm that claim, but it sure is tiny. (twss) → Read More
Look at this drive. It’s nice in its way. It will play DVDs, it’ll write data on ‘em, it’ll even inscribe them with text and graphics if you care to utilize the Lightscribe function. But I can hardly think of a single situation in which something like this would be needed. Can you? → Read More
One of LaCie’s most recognizable products, the Rugged line of external HDDs has been around for ages, but only recently expanded into the 3.5″ HDD realm with this 1TB unit. The design is much the same, but obviously it’s significantly larger — and more spacious. But is it worth the premium over other 1TB drives? → Read More
If money is no issue, and you’re looking to play 1080p content—alt.binaries.hdtv.h264 says hi—on your big screen TV, you really ought to look into getting a proper PC, one with one of those fancy nVidia GPU that you can use to hardware accelerate said Blu-ray rips. That being said, it looks like LaCie just came out with a stand-alone device that should play most of the HD content you “find” online. Oh, it’s called the LaCinema Rugged HD, and LaCie wants $350 for it. → Read More
LaCie has a rather nice selection of NAS units to choose from, but the latest should get some attention from Mac users. Both the Big Disk Network (left) and the d2 Network (right) sport the classic LaCie design, which is obviously inspired by H.A.L 9000, and are compatible with Apple’s Time Machine. → Read More
LaCie’s orange-and-grey rugged drives have been around for quite some time, but because they used 2.5″ HDDs, they were limited to 500GB. This new XL version is 1TB, and I guarantee you’re going to be seeing bigger ones down the road. I’ve used these things before, and they’re solid. → Read More
Flash drives are easy enough to lose when they actually look like a piece of technology so why even buy LaCie‘s CurrenKey ’cause you know its going to get lost anyway. It looks like a coin, for goodness sake. The USB 2.0 drive is even constructed out of metal so it’s going to feel like a coin, too. → Read More
LaCie, no stranger to the storage game, is putting out a unique-looking and high-capacity RAID network-attached storage box. It’ll hold up to 7.5TB at the moment, which is a huge amount but looks smaller every day as storage capacities skyrocket. I’d say a year ago a terabyte was like “wow, a terabyte?” and now it’s like “yeah, let me get a couple of those.” → Read More
[photopress:hd_desktophd1tb_usb_2.jpg,full,center] I’m a fan of minimalist design, and this new pair of LaCie drives are perfect, physically-speaking. They’re pretty dope inside, too: 500GB or 1TB drives running at a cool 7200RPM with USB 2.0 connectivity? Yes, please. No word on pricing yet, but this is art, people. LaCie desktop hard disks [via Giz] → Read More
[photopress:IMG_1386.JPG,full,pp_image] Setting up a home storage server has long been fraught with peril. I’ve in fact had a terabyte and a half of storage space lying in NAS blocks in the past year and never stored more than a few movies on any of these devices. There just wasn’t a good, sane way to keep things updated without going through arcane web interfaces or maintaining a network disk connection that — in the end — would always fail. That said, meet the Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini. It’s not a brand new device but I’m here to talk more about the on-board software than anything else. This is because the HipServ firmware that resides on this particular drive is probably one of the best examples of a home server that could actually be used and installed by anyone who actually lives in a house and does not have a Master’s in Information Systems. [photopress:itunes.jpg,thumb,pp_image][photopress:admin.jpg,thumb,pp_image][photopress:lacie.jpg,thumb,pp_image][photopress:login.jpg,thumb,pp_image] → Read More
Coming in 160, 320, and 500 GB sizes, the Lacie external hard drive protects your document in three ways. The first is a fingerprint scanner that supports up to five users. The second is a firmware lock that tethers the drive to the enclosure, so if you remove the drive it becomes unusable. The third is a chain lock port to tie the enclosure physically to your desk or some other solid object. The drives are available now for $149.99, $229.99 and $299.99. They all support USB 2.0, but not Firewire, but still work both PC and Mac. Press Release [LaCie via Gadgets Weblog] → Read More
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